Mulvaney: I Want the Debt Ceiling Raised ‘as Part and Parcel of Larger Package’

DICKERSON: "But it’s busy, but then there’s that blockage, and so let’s talk about an issue, say, the debt limit. It’s coming November 5. The government runs out of its ability to borrow. What is your opinion on that, this fight we have had again and again? What should--"
MULVANEY: "The debt ceiling has traditionally been used as a way to sort of sit back and say, OK, how are we supposed to pay for this? I describe appropriations season as Christmas, and debt ceiling as sort of late January, early February, when the bills come in. And it’s the right thing for us to do and stand back and say, OK, now, we have ran up this debt. What are we going to do to try and make sure it doesn’t happen again? That’s the right reasons to look at the debt ceiling, and we should do that. We should raise it, but we should raise it as part and parcel of a larger package to solve some of the reasons that we have to raise the debt ceiling again." 
DICKERSON: "OK, but you want it to be raised, just quickly?"
MULVANEY: "I want it to be raised as part of a package that actually fixes the reason that we have a debt ceiling problem."
DICKERSON: "All right, congressman, thanks so much for being with us."
MULVANEY: "Thanks, John."
DICKERSON: "We will be back in a moment."